Scientific accomplishments have included basic research and diagnostics development for a variety of animal pathogens including bovine herpesviruses, swine and feline caliciviruses, avian paramyxoviruses, metapneumoviruses and orthomyxoviruses. Ongoing research includes genomics-proteomics analyses of food-borne bacterial pathogens and examining bacteriophage gene products along with other alternative antimicrobials as potentials to combat bacterial disease. Bacteriophages that infect the bacterium Clostridium perfringens have been characterized by full-genome sequencing and expression of the phage lytic proteins as alternative antimicrobials. Discovery of potential probiotic, spore-forming bacteria from free-ranging animals is being conducted as part of ongoing undergraduate research at OSU Cascades.